Thursday, July 10, 2008

Portrait

grey eyes,
wet eye-lashes,
tired eyes,
full eye-brows,
wrinkled forehead,
grey hair,
wet cheeks,
cut, dried lips,
scruffy face...

"why does grandpa look so sad mommy?" the boy asked.
"that was the day grandpa's only daughter died" the mom replied and took the picture from the boy.

......

Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; the telegram from home said. But Meursault never cried for his mother was dead a long time ago.